Sharmila Gupta

Miss Gupta graduated from the Medical School of St Bartholomew’s Hospital in London in 1995 before completing extensive higher training around the world. This began with surgical training on the Cambridge rotation and specialist colorectal training at St Mark’s Hospital in London, before she further developed her clinical and surgical skills in Leuven, Belgium and at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota.

A specialist in laparoscopic surgery, Miss Gupta has been a consultant surgeon at Colchester Hospital since 2010. She is also Colchester’s lead for surgery and lead inflammatory bowel disease surgeon. In 2017, Miss Gupta was elected as a staff governor at East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust, which runs the hospital, where she represents the views of her colleagues and patients to the Board. Away from the NHS, she holds the position of endoscopy lead at Oaks Hospital in Colchester.

Miss Gupta has a keen interest in education and teaching, and regularly develops training programmes to share her knowledge and expertise with laparoscopic surgeons both in the UK and abroad. She has worked with UK-based training team Lapco International on projects in Norway, Denmark, the USA, Bulgaria and Poland, and regularly teaches at the world-renowned ICENI Centre for laparoscopic surgery.

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• The Medical School of St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London 1990-1995

• MBBS The University of London 1995
• FRCS The Royal College of Surgeons of England 2006
• MD The University of London 2006

• General Medical Council
• Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland
• Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland
• Association of Laparoscopic Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland

1. Development and validation of a recommended checklist for assessment of surgical videos quality: the LAParoscopic surgery Video Educational GuidelineS (LAP-VEGaS) video assessment tool.
   Surg Endosc. 2020 Apr 6 Celentano V^1,2, Smart N³, Cahill RA^4,5, Spinelli A^6,7, Giglio MC⁸, McGrath J^9,10, Obermair A^11,12, Pellino G¹³, Hasegawa H¹⁴, Lal P^15,16, Lorenzon L¹⁷, De Angelis N¹⁸, Boni L^19,20, Gupta S²¹, Griffith JP²², Acheson AG²³, Cecil TD²⁴, Coleman MG^25,26.
2. Use of laparoscopic videos amongst surgical trainees in the United Kingdom.
   Surgeon. 2019 Dec;17(6):334-339 Celentano V¹, Smart N², Cahill RA³, McGrath JS⁴, Gupta S⁵, Griffith JP⁶, Acheson AG⁷, Cecil TD⁸, Coleman MG⁹.
3. LAP-VEGaS Practice Guidelines for Reporting of Educational Videos in Laparoscopic Surgery: A Joint Trainers and Trainees Consensus Statement.
   Ann Surg. 2018 Dec;268(6) Celentano V^1,2, Smart N³, McGrath J^4,5, Cahill RA^6,7, Spinelli A^8,9, Obermair A^10,11, Hasegawa H¹², Lal P^13,14, Almoudaris AM^15,16, Hitchins CR¹⁷, Pellino G¹⁸, Browning MG¹⁷, Ishida T¹², Luvisetto F¹, Cingiloglu P^10,11, Gash K^19,20, Harries R²¹, Harji D^22,23, Di Candido F⁹, Cassinotti E²⁴, McDermott FD³, Berry JEA¹⁷, Battersby NJ²⁵, Platt E¹⁷, Campain NJ³, Keeler BD²⁶, Boni L^24,27, Gupta S¹⁵, Griffith JP²⁸, Acheson AG²⁹, Cecil TD³⁰, Coleman MG^17,31.
4. The role of the insulin-like growth factor system in colorectal cancer: review of current knowledge.
   Int J Colorectal Dis. 2005 May;20(3):203-20
   Durai R¹, Yang W, Gupta S, Seifalian AM, Winslet MC.
5. Laparoscopic Surgery for Inflammatory Bowel disease
   Hollingshead J, Gupta S – Laparoscopic Colorectal Surgery (chapter) 2015 Hollingshead J, Gupta S
6. Preoperative neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio > 5 is a prognostic factor for recurrent colorectal cancer
   Colorectal Disease 2013 Mar;15(3):323-328 Mallapa S, Sinha A, Gupta S, Chadwick SJ
7. Review of current practice and outcomes following ileoanal pouch surgery: lessons learned from the Ileoanal Pouch Registry and the 2017 Ileoanal Pouch Report,
   Worley GHT, Fearnhead NS, Brown SR, Acheson AG, Faiz OD on behalf of the ACPGBI and Ileoanal Pouch Registry contributors Colorectal Dis 2018 Oct;20(10):913-922